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*claims the feds

by zionic 6y ago

*claims the feds

chipotle_coyote 6y ago
*claims the transcripts that came out at his trial, which AFAIK neither he nor his defense attorneys disputed. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/the-hitman-scam-dread-pirate-roberts-bizarre-murder-for-hire-attempts/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/the-hitman-scam-...
- mikeyouse 6y ago
  He literally wrote in his journal about how he hoped that having these people murdered would make it easier to run his drug empire.. Ulbricht isn’t a good person, he had a very bad lawyer which probably cost him several decades of imprisonment but just because he was a “hacker” who did his crimes with new technology doesn’t somehow make him better than any of the other people in prison for the same crimes. Seriously, sit down and read the journals they admitted into evidence, the guy is a sociopath focused on getting rich through selling drugs he knew were killing people.
  - dylan604 6y ago
    I love the fact that in the 2010s, and for someone as technical as Ulbricht, that writing in a journal about criminal conspiracies did NOT sound any kind of alerts. Of all of the hoops he was jumping through to stay undetected, all of the OpSec he had to have practiced, yet he kept a detailed journal. Oops? Just don't know how to respond
    - mikeyouse 6y ago
      It was so mundane and psychotic.. Literally from line to line just error logging servers and talking about ordering half million dollar hits. > being blackmailed with user info. talking with large distributor (hell's angels) > got word that blackmailer was excuted, created file upload script, started to fix problem with bond refunds over 3 months old > reconfigured nginx to not time out. almost all errors have disappeared. > sent payment to angels for hit on tony76 and his 3 associates, began setting up hecho as standby, very high load (300/16), took site offline and refactored main and category pages to be more efficient https://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-laptop-ross-ulbricht/ https://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal...

*claims the feds

by zionic 6y ago

*claims the feds

*claims the transcripts that came out at his trial, which AFAIK neither he nor his defense attorneys disputed. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/the-hitman-scam-dread-pirate-roberts-bizarre-murder-for-hire-attempts/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/the-hitman-scam-...

mikeyouse 6y ago
He literally wrote in his journal about how he hoped that having these people murdered would make it easier to run his drug empire.. Ulbricht isn’t a good person, he had a very bad lawyer which probably cost him several decades of imprisonment but just because he was a “hacker” who did his crimes with new technology doesn’t somehow make him better than any of the other people in prison for the same crimes. Seriously, sit down and read the journals they admitted into evidence, the guy is a sociopath focused on getting rich through selling drugs he knew were killing people.
- dylan604 6y ago
  I love the fact that in the 2010s, and for someone as technical as Ulbricht, that writing in a journal about criminal conspiracies did NOT sound any kind of alerts. Of all of the hoops he was jumping through to stay undetected, all of the OpSec he had to have practiced, yet he kept a detailed journal. Oops? Just don't know how to respond
  - mikeyouse 6y ago
    It was so mundane and psychotic.. Literally from line to line just error logging servers and talking about ordering half million dollar hits. > being blackmailed with user info. talking with large distributor (hell's angels) > got word that blackmailer was excuted, created file upload script, started to fix problem with bond refunds over 3 months old > reconfigured nginx to not time out. almost all errors have disappeared. > sent payment to angels for hit on tony76 and his 3 associates, began setting up hecho as standby, very high load (300/16), took site offline and refactored main and category pages to be more efficient https://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-laptop-ross-ulbricht/ https://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal...